Glove-fastener.



No. 725,536. PATENTED APR. 14, 1903.

A. BERNA'UER. GLOVE PASTENER,

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

UNITED I STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER BERNAUER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

G LOVE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 725,536, dated April14, 1903. Application filed August 29, 1902. Serial No. 121,481. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LALEXANDER BERNAUER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California,have invented an Improvement in Glove-Fasteners; and I hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in glove-fasteners.

It consists in a novel fastening whereby the wrist-openings of thegloves may beadjustably drawn together and independentlylocked atdifferent points from one end to the other, so that the gloves may bemade to fit wrists and arms of varying sizes-and a smooth fitmaintained.

It also comprises details of construction, which will be more fullyexplained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a View of a portion of a glove, showing my invention. Fig. 2 is amodification. Fig. 3 is a section'ofdisks and fastenings. Fig. 4 is aview of a single fastener.

Gloves are made with an opening on theinside of the wrist extending froma point contiguous to the base of the thumb to the open end, and theseopenings serve to admit the hand into the glove, after which it iscustomary to close the opening by buttons or equivalent interlockingdevices upon each edge of the opening. ing has been closed by means ofhooks upon each side of the opening'and a cord fastened at one end andinterlaced from one hook to the other, but without being rigidlyfastened at any point along the line of lacing. The objection to thefirst method is that the gloves cannot be made to fit wrists and arms ofdifferent sizes, and in the second there is no lock to rigidly fasteneach point between the outer and inner ends of the opening. Straps havealso been employed to extend from one button to another across theopening; but these are also incapable of adjustment.

It is the object of my invention to provide a means for independentlyand adjustably connecting the sides of the glove-opening at as manypoints as may be desired along the line of said opening.

In some cases the open-.2

As shown in the drawings, A represents a sufficient portion of a gloveto illustrate my invention.

2 is the opening along the inside of the wrist, which enables the wearerto put on the glove, after which it is desirable to close the opening insuch a manner as to make a smooth and perfect fit of the wrist portionof the glove. In order to do this, it is necessary to have adjustableconnections at frequent points from one end. to the other of theopening. These connections consist of pairs of concavo-convex disks 3and 4. These disks are united with the convex portions meeting, thusleaving an annular divergentopening between them. The outer disk 3 has arigid central shank or extensionwhich passes through the material of theglove and is firmly secured to a rivet, washer, eyelet, disk, orv othersuitable means 5, by which the outer disks may be firmly secured to theedges of the opening of the glove and without danger of tearing thematerial. These disks 3 and 4. may

be of any suitable or desired material and have a diameter sufficient toallow a cord or string 6 to be inserted between them. The convergence ofthe disks toward the center allows the cord to bind by giving it a turnaround the central portion. One end of the cord "is permanently fixedeither by binding it between one pair of the disks 3 and 4 or in othersuitable manner, and after the glove 'isfitted up'onthehand, the edgesof the gloveopening being drawn together sufficiently to make the properfit upon the Wrist, the cord is then given a turn-between the twoopposing disks upon the opposite side, thus. binding and uniting theseparts firmly together. If only a single 'pair'of buttons is used, as inheavygloves, the single fastening would be sufficient; but for gloveswhich extend a considerable distance up the wrist or arm.

several pairs of these disks may be employed and the cord may pass fromthefirst pair of disks to the next pair, being given'a turn between onepair of the disks and thence passed across to the opposite pair, theedge'sfof' the glove-openin'gbeing drawn together to fitthe wrist or armat this particular point. The

turn of the cord at this point makes a second adjustable and rigid lockand the cord can then be carried to the next pair, and so on for theentire length of the glove-opening. In this manner it will be seen thateach portion of the wrist-opening may be drawn so as to fit smoothlyupon the corresponding portion of the wrist or arm, and by reason of theinterlocking of the cord with each pair of disks the varying size of thewrist or arm may be compensated for, so that as the arm increases insize the length of the cord extending across the opening will be greaterat each fastening; but each of the fastenings will be independentlyinterlocked and not depend in any way upon the tension of either of theothers.

In Fig. 2 I illustrate a modification wherein the glove is provided withdisks along one edge of its opening and has eyelets along the otheredge, the action of the disks in this instance being substantially thesame as that described for Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

An improved glove-fastener including a pair of plain-surfaced disks eachmade concaved and said disks placed together in reverse order whereby anangular divergent channel is formed between the edges and one of saiddisks having a rigid shank which passes loosely through the other disk,a disk or washer for securing the inner end of the shank, and alacing-cord to be passed into the converging space between the edges ofthe pair of disks to cause the disks to move one relative to the other,and grip the cord as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ALEXANDER BERNAUER.

\Vitnesses:

S. H. NoURsE, J :nssm C. BRoDIE.

